期刊名称：AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The American Journal of Comparative Law is a scholarly quarterly journal devoted to comparative law, comparing the laws of one or more nations with those of another or discussing one jurisdiction's law in order for the reader to understand how it might differ from that of the United States or another country. It publishes features articles contributed by major scholars and comments by law student writers.
The American Society of Comparative Law, Inc. (ASCL), formerly the American Association for the Comparative Study of Law, Inc., is an organization of institutional and individual members devoted to study, research, and write on foreign and comparative law as well as private international law. Its purposes, as set forth in 1951 in its original certificate of incorporation, are "to promote the comparative study of law and the understanding of foreign legal systems; to establish, maintain and publish without a profit a comparative law journal; and to provide for research and the publication without profit of writings, books, papers and pamphlets relating to comparative, foreign or private international law." A nonprofit corporation, the ASCL is prepared to receive gifts for any of its purposes, including support of The American Journal of Comparative Law.
Instructions to Authors
Articles should be in Microsoft Word format, with one inch margins, in 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced text, and single-spaced footnotes.
Include 1) your contact information (e-mail address, mailing address, phone, and fax number); 2) an abstract; 3) five to ten keywords; and 4) a “category” that best fits your article from the list below. Only one category may be selected from this list.
- * Comparative Law
- * Foreign Law
- * European Law
- * Private International Law/Conflict of Laws
- * International Law
- * African Law
- * Asian Law
- * Latin American Law
- * Globalization of Law
- * Religious Law
- * Unification of Law
- * Comparative Law Theory
- * Comparative Legal History
- * Civil Law
- * Common Law
As for the length, while there is no formal guideline at present, The Editorial Board has expressed a preference for papers of up to 20,000 words in length, including footnotes; shorter papers are preferred. While the Editors-in-Chief would never automatically dismiss a paper just because of length, the Journalrarely publishes papers substantially exceeding this length.
Once a manuscript has been accepted, we will ask authors to ensure that all citations be in footnotes and that U.S. footnote citations conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 19th Edition. Foreign books must also be in Bluebook format, but all other foreign citations may be cited according to either the Bluebook’s citation guidelines for foreign legal sources (Table 2), or to foreign citation guidelines.
Note to Authors: Due to the physical move of the American Journal of Comparative Law to Georgetown University Law Center from the University of Michigan, the transition to an expanded board of editors and reviewers, and a backlog of unreviewed articles, the Journal is closed to submissions as of Friday, January 24, 2014. We anticipate re-opening to submissions on or before Tuesday, April 1, 2014, when Volume 62:2 goes to press.
Please send manuscripts via e-mail to ajcl@law.georgetown.edu. The review process takes approximately six to eight weeks.
Miscellaneous:
- * All submissions must be exclusive to the American Journal of Comparative Law.
- * Since we are a peer reviewed journal, manuscripts are normally not reviewed in-house, but by scholars at many different institutions. Because of this, we cannot accommodate requests for expedited review.
- * Include a starred footnote next to the author’s name for the author bio and acknowledgements.
- * We do not publish Table of Contents for articles.
- * Manuscripts must be submitted in English (American spelling).
- * An author may post a draft of their article to SSRN before publication. After publication, an author may post a PDF of their article on their website, provided they include a citation to the article as it appears in the Journal.
- * Authors will have a choice of receiving twenty-five complimentary copies of offprints or a complimentary PDF of their article. Additional offprints may be purchased as well.
- * Regarding editing, we are not a student-run journal and do not have a large staff to edit your article. Minimal substantive and copy-editing will be done.
- * If English is not your first language, before submitting your manuscript, consider having it edited for proper language, style, and grammar. This is not a mandatory step, but it will ensure that the academic content of your paper is fully understood by journal editors and reviewers. Such editing does not guarantee that your manuscript will be accepted for publication. Oxford Journals maintains a list of language editing services here. There are other language editing companies that offer similar services. The costs of language editing services are the responsibility of the author.
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief:
Helge Dedek
Associate Professor and Director, Institute of Comparative Law
McGill University Faculty of Law
James Feinerman
James M. Morita Professor of Asian Legal Studies
Georgetown University Law Center
Franz Werro
Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center / University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
Executive Editorial Board (2012-2014)
• Louise Antoniolli
• Gary F. Bell
• Francesca Bignami
• Donald C. Clarke
• Dominique Custos
• Tom Ginsburg
• Maximo Langer
• Symeon Simeonides
Former Editors-in Chief
• Hessel E. Yntema † (1952-1966)
• B.J. George † (1966-1968)
• Alfred F. Conard (1968-1970)
• John G. Fleming † (1971-1987)
• Richard M. Buxbaum (1987-2003)
• George A. Bermann (2003-2006)
• James Gordley (2003-2008)
• Mathias W. Reimann (2003-2013)
Managing Editor
Jonathan Zimmer
Georgetown University Law Center
600 New Jersey Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
(202)662-9404 Phone
(202)662-4038 Fax
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